Date: Wed, 6 Dec 1995 18:38:17 -0500

From: Jerry Miller millerj[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]FRANKLINCOLL.EDU

Subject: Re: Time clock



Kathleen wrote: I just heard, in the lyrics to a song

by the Tractors, the expression "time clock."



Is this a common expression? I've never heard it.



What other kinds of "clock" are there besides

those of the "time" variety? I'm stumped.



The Tractors, btw, are from Oklahoma.



I assume it refers to the kind of machine at factories, etc., where workers

punch in and out with cards, upon which the times are stamped by the "time

clock." I've heard that usage quite a bit here (in Indiana) and elsewhere.



Jerry Miller

Pulliam School of Journalism

Franklin College (Ind.)

[speaking only for myself, who, happily, doesn't have to punch a time clock]